How to use this program

If you just want to use this program:
 - download GenCard5.exe (or GenCard5.pt* and
   concatenate the pieces in binary mode to
   generate GenCard5.exe)
 - download Base_Sources/* or Base_Sources.tar
 - download Symbols/icons/* or else Symbols-icons.tgz
 - download ReadMe.txt, and spoiler* for some ideas.
 - make folders called Artwork/ and Symbols/
   (you put your own files in those)
 - you don't need fonts.zip because all the fonts
   you'll need are actually compiled into the EXE
 - you don't need the source files
 - you don't need the GraphApp library, it's all
   compiled into the EXE already

If you want to build this program:
 - download src/* or src*.tgz
 - download fonts.zip
 - download GraphApp from http://enchantia.com
 - download Base_Sources/*
 - download Symbols/icons/* or Symbols-icons.tgz

The following instructions concern building the program:

You'll need GraphApp, my free open source image toolkit.
Visit http://enchantia.com/software/graphapp/ and
download the latest one.

You'll need to generate some portable fonts for GraphApp.
This is because the program draws everything with
in-memory images (not OS-specific in-graphics-card
bitmaps). So, the images require pixel sources from
which to draw. Fonts are just another pixel source.

So, download fonts.zip and unpack it to
C:/Apps/app/fonts/ so that Mana/ and MagicTG/ are folders
within that app/fonts/ folder.

Portable fonts in GraphApp are stored as PNG images
with associated text files describing the sizes of
the glyphs within the PNG images. GraphApp comes
with an example program called fontdraw.c which
can generate fonts. You should use that to generate
the Times font as PNG images. You want every integer
pixel height from 16 to 60 inclusive, in each style
of PLAIN, ITALIC, ANIT_ALIAS and ITALIC+ANTI_ALIAS.
You can write a loop in the main function of fontdraw
to do that. Rename the resulting fontsave/Times/ folder
to C:/Apps/app/fonts/Times/ and now Times will be
available as a pixel source for the program.

In future I'll make a native-font-to-pixel-source
internal converter so you won't need to generate
the Times font at all. But that isn't ready yet.
The advantage of this is a smaller compiled download
and less user work to install the thing; the Times
font will effectively be generated in memory at
run-time. (The reason PNG pixel sources for fonts
is good is that the image manipulation no longer
relies on having a valid Windows or X-Windows
connection, which means I could make this program
work as a web script one day.)

Note: Because GraphApp is a cross-platform toolkit,
you can compile this program for Windows or Linux
or possibly even Mac if it's running X-Windows.

Loki